Games

There's a lot of games being mentioned here that had a full run. Let's talk about an actually cancelled game - SkySaga: Infinite Isles. Block game in the vein of Portal Knights that was extremely inspired.

The gameplay loop consisted of using "Keys" on a portal at your home island that would randomly generate a floating island with various objectives on it and a boss, all of which was harvestable for materials and blocks to build with back on your home island. There was a social hub city island everyone could access that alowed access to PvP and a few types of guilds with various combat, gathering, and exploration quests. Crafting was pretty good, allowing you to use metals with various properties to mix and match your own gear - some metals did more damage or applied an elemental effect, some had quicker swing speed, some were durable as armor and others not so much but they increased movespeed or jump height.

The game had about a dozen beta access phases then dropped off the face of the earth, with the server (and how it worked) lost forever. Completely lost to time, cancelled before it could release proper. No other block game has come close to the kind of structural appeal it had for me, and I think about it frequently. There's a few reverse engineering projects in the works but they are stagnant.

I love a lot of the games in this thread but they had an actual release and real servers, you could play them for multiple years. Some others promised a bit more than they delivered, and were cut a bit short by EA or other trash publishers. SkySaga was killed before launch and placed in an opaque prison, truly cancelled.

I miss firefall. It was very innovative and enormous. The devs were trying new ideas in the alpha all the time.

For me it's Defiance but good thing some studio got rights to game and they going to bring back server soon.

Concord

Haha, just kidding.

If we're talking straight up cancelled, then I will forever be sad that Scalebound was cancelled.

I'm sure it wasn't going to be as great as I was hoping anyways, but damn the concept looked so cool, and when I saw a dude with headphones jamming out to music fighting with his dragon buddy I was like "I want to be that!" Like it felt like that game was being made especially for me and my interests, and then it got cancelled 😔

The Original Lawn Darts. Life is no fun without a bit of risk.

I'd like to play around with whatever alpha build they made for the original concept of Team Fortress 2.

I love the one that came out (it's probably my most played game of all time), but those first few screenshots before retooling were captivating when we'd already been waiting so long for the release.

The Culling

Before the devs ruined it by throwing away the movement and combat system.

Wasn't canceled but they might as well have because they lost 99% of their playerbase from that one change in Beta.

Mario 35

Star Wars galaxies

The Cycle: Frontier. It was a pvpve extraction shooter that had such potential. Struggled to keep cheaters at bay, but it felt like they were making progress until one day they announced they were shutting down. Every month or two someone in our group chat brings it up and we're collectively sad that it's gone.

Orcs Must Die Unchained. Pretty good game overall, was trying to be a league of legends type of game with 3D TD, it didn't get a player base going, so they swapped it over to a solo game, the maps were fun as hell and picking through 10+ characters was fun, it was really dynamic and the endless mode was very fun to push. They ended all support, it's offline. Sucks. OMD 3 came out, it's not even a quarter the game. Theirs 4 different player characters, they are all humans. All enemies are orcs or other bad guy type of mobs, unchained had human enemies and a few other variations, there's no where near the number of maps and most maps play in a really predictable way. In Unchained there were maps you needed to build a kill box, sell it, move it, all to get one wave killed, at least on the first few waves, anyway. It almost scratches the itch, but not well. I'm honestly perplexed on why they didn't just include the characters and maps from unchained.

Anyway. It's a very ''there are dozens of us!'' Game. So. I don't expect much here.

Technically it was never released, but I was invited to a closed alpha (or beta?) for a game called Chroma, by Harmonix, the OG Guitar Hero people. It was a lot of fun and I'm still sad that it was canceled...

titan fall 2. never actually got to appreciate it because by the time i found it the server matching was completely broken. all they need to do is allow private servers or fix the matching system and the game would be playable. seems like plenty of people want to play it. I don't know why they decided let the game die instead. makes no damn sense.

Fur me, it would be Beyond Good and Evil. I really wanted to see where the story went next

Hellraid! God damnit, I was so ready for a first pirson action dungeon crawler in the style of Dying Light 😥

Honestly, I was really looking forward to EverQuest Next. The idea sounded promising before it was cancelled.

Probably the Hardsuit Labs version of Bloodlines 2. Playing as a thin-blood and getting to diablerie would have been really fun.

i dont understand why nobody has mentioned nosgoth yet. i regularly think about and miss this game so much!!!

Chrono Break

True Fantasy Live Online looked like it would have been amazing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Fantasy_Live_Online